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Moratorium to include dorm fast, funeral
By NED SHAPIRO and CHERYL MILLER
A dorm “Fast for Peace” and a symbolic funeral honoring the war dead are Thursday’s activities beginning the two-day November Vietnam moratorium, sponsored by the Vietnam Moratorium Committee.
The fast is being held to raise money to charter buses for a march for peace in San Francisco. The administration has agreed to give the committee the cost of a meal for every student who signs a petition stating his intention to fast.
Dan Lunham, Men’s Halls Association president, said that by Monday night, 330 students had indicated their willingness to fast the entire day of Thursday by signing the petition. It was scheduled to be circulated again last night.
Two buses are expected to leave the Religious Center Friday at 10 p.m. Those going are asked to meet there at 9:30 p.m. and anyone driving to the march is asked to stop by and take interested people. A minimal price may be charged. Students wishing further information may call Wendy Einstadt, 746-7085.
The funeral service will begin at 11 a.m., with the participants assembling at the Religious Center. The procession will then move down University Avenue to the Pharmacy School, turn around and return to Alumni Park.
Two symbolic coffins will be carried and participants will carry American flags and war dead placards.
A funeral service will then be conducted by members of the USC clergy and those from the
surrounding area. After the service participants will place their flags into the ground to symbolize graves. A silent vigil will then begin, which will include the reading of the names of California war dead.
After the service there will be speakers in the Open Forum area, including Steve Schmidt, state moratorium coordinator; Prof. Barbara Myerhoff of anthropology; and a clergy member.
Friday’s activities will involve informal canvassing in the surrounding neighborhoods. Anyone who wishes to participate is asked to come to Religious Center 201 to pick up materials.
For those not going to San Francisco, a rally will be held Saturday at MacArthur Park from
10 a.m. to 5 p.m., sponsored by the Coalition against Repression and the Support Our Servicemen Committee. Featured at the rally will be 100 antiwar marines from Camp Pendleton.
The center of moratorium activity will be the march in San Francisco on Saturday. Beginning at 7 a.m. the march will go down Geary and Steiner Streets, through the downtown area to Golden Gate Park. The rally will be held at 2 p.m.
Speakers at that rally will include Wayne Morse, formerly senator from Oregon, Rev. Ralph Abernathy of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Black Panther David Hilliard; Dolores Huerta of the Farm Workers Union; Rennie Davis of the Conspiracy-8; Corky Gonzales of the Crusade for Justice and Dean Siegel of the Vietnam Moratorium National Committee.
University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LXI, NO. 42
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12,1969
Council defeats Ullman’s motion
PAT NOLAN GIVES VIEWS ON VIETNAM WAR
From left Rich Hilton, Jeff Fields, Dennis Thompson, Aaron Wolf wait turn.
Photo by Don Shearer
DEBATE ON WAR
Nixon’s moves discussed
A noon hour debate in Hancock Park Tuesday between student representatives of the political left and right, drew a small but attentive audience of about 100 students.
Four members of the Vietnam Moratorium Committee, advocating complete and immediate withdrawal of all American troops from Vietnam, were Dennis Thomson, Rich Hilton, Jeff Fields and Aaron Wolf.
They debated with four student Republicans, Bill Saracino and Pat Nolan of Young Americans for Freedom, and Art Berkowitz and Guy DePaul of Trojan Young Republicans, who support President Nixon’s Vietnam policy.
“The VMC’s purpose is to rally mass public support and force the administration to act upon our contention that only the immediate withdrawal of all American troops will bring peace in Vietnam,” Thomson said.
“We cannot accept any peace without honor, cannot sacrifice the South Vietnamese, must remain adamant on their right to freely determine their own form of self-government,” was the response of Bill Saracino.
Both sides agreed that Nixon seeks peace, but divided on his methods, and chances of success.
“Nixon wants a puppet government in Saigon, propped up by the United States, which Hanoi won’t accept, and this is defeating negotiations in Paris,” insisted Hilton.
“We have compromised, de-escalated, offered to negotiate every facet of the war. Now we only fire when fired on — a ridiculous way to fight any
war. The only thing Nixon insists upon is a free election in South Vietnam. We have a commitment to them, and this is it,” Pat Nolan countered.
Asked his opinion of Vice-president Agnew’s comment on some supporters of the VMC moratorium, calling them “an effete corps of impudent snobs,” DePaul suggested it was a personal response to extensive name-calling by some members of the left.
“Cranston, for instance, may be a snob, but he is certainly not effete,” DePaul said.
As the debate was being formally concluded, an unidentified youth from the audience took the stage to challenge an earlier statement by DePaul, to the effect that he, DePaul, neither intended nor expected to personally fight in Vietnam.
Responding to the question of how he could justify supporting Nixon’s policy with his intention not to fight himself, DePaul re-stated his position.
“What I meant was I hoped not to be drafted, and did not expect to be drafted. But if I was, I would not like it, but 1 would enlist, go and do what ever was asked of me, and hope to come home.”
Angry retorts from various members of the VMC and their supporters in the audience, such as “Your altitude is perpetuating the war and condemning us to fight and maybe die,” were rejected calmly by DePaul as ridiculous.
“We all have our own personal moral commitments, and I am responsible only for my own. If anyone would rather leave or go to jail, that is his decision,” DePaul concluded.
By ANDY MILLER Managing editor
, ASSC Executive Council meetings, never lacking in humor, could have provided a script for “Laugh-In” Tuesday.
In a perplexing maneuver, Jeff Ullman, sophomore representative, introduced a resolution which would have required job recruiters to debate students if 300 signatures were obtained on a petition.
Then, after 10 minutes of debate, Ullman called his resolution worthless, and asked that it be withdrawn.
He was spared the agony, however, as the council voted it down unanimously in a voice vote.
The resolution read: “That upon the presentation of a petition signed by 300 students protesting the appearance of a particular recruiter, the ASSC shall inform him that a debate shall be arranged prior to his recruitment in order to formally present his purpose for recruitment.”
Also voted down was an amendment, which would have been the last sentence of the resolution: “If said recruiter does not comply with the conditions stated herein, he shall not be allowed to recruit on campus.”
It was after the amendment was voted down that Ullman called the resolution worthless.
He promised to be back next week with a “beautifully stated resolution.”
Early in the meeting, when he introduced the motion, he said it “would virtually eliminate any type of violent confrontation” over such recruiters as Dow Chemical, the Central Intelligence Agency or the marines.
The resolution, Ullman said, was given to him by a fellow sophomore. It is similar to one passed earlier this year at the University of Pennsylvania, he added.
In other business, the council spent one-and-a-half hours deliberating over budget requests.
Coronation of Helen tonight to start off Troy Week
By CINDY COVELL
Helen of Troy will be crowned tonight at her own special pageant at 8 in Town and Gown Foyer.
In the past the coronation has always taken place at the Troy Week Ball, the final event of Troy Week, but this year the crowning will come first.
“We are having the earlier crowning so that the new Helen of Troy may preside over all of the activities and be the honored guest at the Troy Ball,” John Dieterich, Helen of Troy Committee chairman, said.
“The idea of the pageant is an entirely new trend. We would like it to become a tradition. By doing it this way we hope to make Helen of Troy a little more special to the school and more glamorous for the winner.”
The pageant is styled after other beauty contests. The 15 contestants will be required to appear in formals, school attire and sportswear.
Each finalist must also give a short talk and present a skit. Due to this new format, much of the final judging will be done on the poise and appearance the girls display before an audience. Preliminary judging was based on private interviews.
The panel of judges is made up of two graduate students, one alumnus and one administrator. Each judge has equal weight.
Date dress is required at the event.

Moratorium to include dorm fast, funeral
By NED SHAPIRO and CHERYL MILLER
A dorm “Fast for Peace” and a symbolic funeral honoring the war dead are Thursday’s activities beginning the two-day November Vietnam moratorium, sponsored by the Vietnam Moratorium Committee.
The fast is being held to raise money to charter buses for a march for peace in San Francisco. The administration has agreed to give the committee the cost of a meal for every student who signs a petition stating his intention to fast.
Dan Lunham, Men’s Halls Association president, said that by Monday night, 330 students had indicated their willingness to fast the entire day of Thursday by signing the petition. It was scheduled to be circulated again last night.
Two buses are expected to leave the Religious Center Friday at 10 p.m. Those going are asked to meet there at 9:30 p.m. and anyone driving to the march is asked to stop by and take interested people. A minimal price may be charged. Students wishing further information may call Wendy Einstadt, 746-7085.
The funeral service will begin at 11 a.m., with the participants assembling at the Religious Center. The procession will then move down University Avenue to the Pharmacy School, turn around and return to Alumni Park.
Two symbolic coffins will be carried and participants will carry American flags and war dead placards.
A funeral service will then be conducted by members of the USC clergy and those from the
surrounding area. After the service participants will place their flags into the ground to symbolize graves. A silent vigil will then begin, which will include the reading of the names of California war dead.
After the service there will be speakers in the Open Forum area, including Steve Schmidt, state moratorium coordinator; Prof. Barbara Myerhoff of anthropology; and a clergy member.
Friday’s activities will involve informal canvassing in the surrounding neighborhoods. Anyone who wishes to participate is asked to come to Religious Center 201 to pick up materials.
For those not going to San Francisco, a rally will be held Saturday at MacArthur Park from
10 a.m. to 5 p.m., sponsored by the Coalition against Repression and the Support Our Servicemen Committee. Featured at the rally will be 100 antiwar marines from Camp Pendleton.
The center of moratorium activity will be the march in San Francisco on Saturday. Beginning at 7 a.m. the march will go down Geary and Steiner Streets, through the downtown area to Golden Gate Park. The rally will be held at 2 p.m.
Speakers at that rally will include Wayne Morse, formerly senator from Oregon, Rev. Ralph Abernathy of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Black Panther David Hilliard; Dolores Huerta of the Farm Workers Union; Rennie Davis of the Conspiracy-8; Corky Gonzales of the Crusade for Justice and Dean Siegel of the Vietnam Moratorium National Committee.
University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LXI, NO. 42
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12,1969
Council defeats Ullman’s motion
PAT NOLAN GIVES VIEWS ON VIETNAM WAR
From left Rich Hilton, Jeff Fields, Dennis Thompson, Aaron Wolf wait turn.
Photo by Don Shearer
DEBATE ON WAR
Nixon’s moves discussed
A noon hour debate in Hancock Park Tuesday between student representatives of the political left and right, drew a small but attentive audience of about 100 students.
Four members of the Vietnam Moratorium Committee, advocating complete and immediate withdrawal of all American troops from Vietnam, were Dennis Thomson, Rich Hilton, Jeff Fields and Aaron Wolf.
They debated with four student Republicans, Bill Saracino and Pat Nolan of Young Americans for Freedom, and Art Berkowitz and Guy DePaul of Trojan Young Republicans, who support President Nixon’s Vietnam policy.
“The VMC’s purpose is to rally mass public support and force the administration to act upon our contention that only the immediate withdrawal of all American troops will bring peace in Vietnam,” Thomson said.
“We cannot accept any peace without honor, cannot sacrifice the South Vietnamese, must remain adamant on their right to freely determine their own form of self-government,” was the response of Bill Saracino.
Both sides agreed that Nixon seeks peace, but divided on his methods, and chances of success.
“Nixon wants a puppet government in Saigon, propped up by the United States, which Hanoi won’t accept, and this is defeating negotiations in Paris,” insisted Hilton.
“We have compromised, de-escalated, offered to negotiate every facet of the war. Now we only fire when fired on — a ridiculous way to fight any
war. The only thing Nixon insists upon is a free election in South Vietnam. We have a commitment to them, and this is it,” Pat Nolan countered.
Asked his opinion of Vice-president Agnew’s comment on some supporters of the VMC moratorium, calling them “an effete corps of impudent snobs,” DePaul suggested it was a personal response to extensive name-calling by some members of the left.
“Cranston, for instance, may be a snob, but he is certainly not effete,” DePaul said.
As the debate was being formally concluded, an unidentified youth from the audience took the stage to challenge an earlier statement by DePaul, to the effect that he, DePaul, neither intended nor expected to personally fight in Vietnam.
Responding to the question of how he could justify supporting Nixon’s policy with his intention not to fight himself, DePaul re-stated his position.
“What I meant was I hoped not to be drafted, and did not expect to be drafted. But if I was, I would not like it, but 1 would enlist, go and do what ever was asked of me, and hope to come home.”
Angry retorts from various members of the VMC and their supporters in the audience, such as “Your altitude is perpetuating the war and condemning us to fight and maybe die,” were rejected calmly by DePaul as ridiculous.
“We all have our own personal moral commitments, and I am responsible only for my own. If anyone would rather leave or go to jail, that is his decision,” DePaul concluded.
By ANDY MILLER Managing editor
, ASSC Executive Council meetings, never lacking in humor, could have provided a script for “Laugh-In” Tuesday.
In a perplexing maneuver, Jeff Ullman, sophomore representative, introduced a resolution which would have required job recruiters to debate students if 300 signatures were obtained on a petition.
Then, after 10 minutes of debate, Ullman called his resolution worthless, and asked that it be withdrawn.
He was spared the agony, however, as the council voted it down unanimously in a voice vote.
The resolution read: “That upon the presentation of a petition signed by 300 students protesting the appearance of a particular recruiter, the ASSC shall inform him that a debate shall be arranged prior to his recruitment in order to formally present his purpose for recruitment.”
Also voted down was an amendment, which would have been the last sentence of the resolution: “If said recruiter does not comply with the conditions stated herein, he shall not be allowed to recruit on campus.”
It was after the amendment was voted down that Ullman called the resolution worthless.
He promised to be back next week with a “beautifully stated resolution.”
Early in the meeting, when he introduced the motion, he said it “would virtually eliminate any type of violent confrontation” over such recruiters as Dow Chemical, the Central Intelligence Agency or the marines.
The resolution, Ullman said, was given to him by a fellow sophomore. It is similar to one passed earlier this year at the University of Pennsylvania, he added.
In other business, the council spent one-and-a-half hours deliberating over budget requests.
Coronation of Helen tonight to start off Troy Week
By CINDY COVELL
Helen of Troy will be crowned tonight at her own special pageant at 8 in Town and Gown Foyer.
In the past the coronation has always taken place at the Troy Week Ball, the final event of Troy Week, but this year the crowning will come first.
“We are having the earlier crowning so that the new Helen of Troy may preside over all of the activities and be the honored guest at the Troy Ball,” John Dieterich, Helen of Troy Committee chairman, said.
“The idea of the pageant is an entirely new trend. We would like it to become a tradition. By doing it this way we hope to make Helen of Troy a little more special to the school and more glamorous for the winner.”
The pageant is styled after other beauty contests. The 15 contestants will be required to appear in formals, school attire and sportswear.
Each finalist must also give a short talk and present a skit. Due to this new format, much of the final judging will be done on the poise and appearance the girls display before an audience. Preliminary judging was based on private interviews.
The panel of judges is made up of two graduate students, one alumnus and one administrator. Each judge has equal weight.
Date dress is required at the event.